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Refugees Describe Horrors of Serb ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

The Spokesman-Review, p.A4 Washington Post 7 August 1992. ZENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The bus bringing Atif Ahmedzehajic to the Serb-run detention camp at Omarska had just begun disgorging Bosniak prisoners when the guards began shooting. “Right there before my eyes, they … Continue reading

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Kozarac (Prijedor): 111 Bosnian Genocide Victims Laid to Rest

Families of 111 victims of the 1992-95 Bosnian Genocide  have honoured their loved ones in a mass funeral ceremony in northwestern Bosnia. The victims’ bodies were found over the past few years in dozens of mass graves scattered around the … Continue reading

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Bosniak Man Begged for Dignified Death at Omarska Camp

Serb Torture Center Depicted Toledo Blade, p.2 25 May 1996. THE HAGUE (AP) — A Bosniak described yesterday how he pleaded with a Serb interrogators for a dignified death after seeing another prisoner’s brains splattered across a cell wall. Mevludin … Continue reading

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Bosnian Women Seek Justice as War Crime Victims of Rape

Bosnian Women Seek Justice as War Crime Victims The Daily Union, p.7 26 February 1997. By David Bauder NEW YORK (AP) — After what they had been through, Jadranka Cigelj [Bosnian Croat woman] and Nusreta Sivac [Bosniak woman] weren’t about … Continue reading

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Bosnian Mine near Prijedor May Contain 8,000 Victims

The Durant Daily Democrat, p. Front, Section 1, cont. p.7 11 January 1996. NEW YORK (AP) — As many as 8,000 victims of a Bosnian Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing may be buried in an iron mine in the Bosnian … Continue reading

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Serbs Forced Bosniak Boy to Have Sex With Dead Mother

Witness Provides Gory Testimony on Bosnian Camp Reading Eagle, p.B8 22 June 1996. Bosniak survivor of Serb prison camp tells U.N. war crimes trial how drunken Serb soldier killed young man after ordering him to have sex with his dead … Continue reading

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Photo Diary: Don't Forget the Bosnian Genocide

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Concentration Camp Survivors in Bosnia Detail Executions

Reading Eagle, page A16. 5 August 1992. By Ron Gutman ZAGREB, Croatia – Serbian guards at the Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia daily executed Bosniak and Croat prisoners from the thousands being held in at least three locations in the … Continue reading

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Aftermath of the Bosnian Genocide: In the Land of War Criminals

Photo Credits: 21-year-old Edna Dautovic was one of many Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) women who were tortured, brutally raped, and then killed by the Serbs in the Omarska concentration camp near Prijedor. Pre-war photo of Edna Dautovic courtesy of the International … Continue reading

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The 1992 Hambarine Massacre near Prijedor, Bosnia

The attacks on the Bosnian Muslim village of Hambarine in May of 1992, coupled with the arrests, detention, rapes, and ethnic cleansing and massacres of civilians in the Prijedor, resulted in virtually a complete elimination of Bosnian Muslims from the … Continue reading

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Serbs Kill 200 Bosniak Prisoners, Heave Bodies Down the Slope

Eugene Register-Guard 9 August 1992. ZAGREB, Croatia — A Bosniak [Bosnian Muslim] says a split-second decision to leap into a ravine saved his life while Serbs killed about 200 fellow prisoners and heaved their bodies down the slope. “One of … Continue reading

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Kozarac massacre, Serbs Systematically Kill Thousands of Bosniak Civilians

The Deadly `Ethnic Cleansing’ Of A Bosnian Muslim City By Mary Battiata 2 November 1992. KOZARAC, Bosnia – At a bend in the road just past the Kozarac town sawmill, a young Serb named Goran Borovice stood on a second-story … Continue reading

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